Alike but Different. Drinking Vessels in the Eastern Mediterranean around 2500-2000 BC

This article aims at reconsidering the evidence for the appearance and diffusion of new types of drinking vessels in different areas within the Levant during the second half of 3rd millennium BC and at discussing their parallels in other areas of the eastern Mediterranean basin. Re-analysing the spatial distribution of the new drinking paraphernalia, the article explores local variability and shared drinking behaviours in that period and their connections to socio-cultural transformations at the regional and inter-regional levels.